🔥🔥🔥Late 2026 – The Awakening
It started quietly, like a whisper in Telegram groups and fading Discord servers. By Q4 2026, the crypto market had already been battered: Bitcoin hovered around $70k–$80k after sharp drops earlier in the year, but altcoins? They were ghosts. Ethereum struggled below previous highs, Solana and others bled 50–80% from their 2025 peaks, and thousands of smaller tokens traded at fractions of a cent. Bitcoin dominance had climbed steadily toward 65–70%, a level not seen sustainably since early cycles, as capital fled riskier bets.
The narrative shift crystallized around Christmas 2026. Influencers who once shilled “100x gems” posted mea culpas. On-chain data showed retail wallets dumping alt bags en masse, often for pennies. Forums filled with posts like: “I just sent my entire $MEME coin stack back to the dev as a ‘donation.’ At least they can have it.” Project founders, facing delistings and zero liquidity, received these token airdrops ironically—millions of worthless units returned like unwanted holiday fruitcakes. Some devs burned them publicly in live streams for catharsis; others quietly sold the scraps for BTC scraps.
The realization dawned collectively: altcoins weren’t “temporarily down.” Most lacked real utility, adoption, or sustainable economics. They had been propped up by hype, leverage, and hope—now gone. The “flippening” dreams evaporated. People weren’t just selling; they were abandoning ship.
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